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UK agency calls for most vulnerable to be given a say in Myanmar’s future
February 20, 2019
British Secretary of State for International Development, Minister for Women and Equalities Penny Mordaunt arrives at 10 Downing Street for a cabinet...
February 20, 2019
Myanmar has condemned the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, NDTV reported. In a...
February 20, 2019
Both RCSS and SSPP blame one another for placing the mine in the area. The headman of Nam Maw Lon village in northern Shan State’s Hsipaw Township...
February 20, 2019
The first scheduled informal meeting between the Burmese government’s National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) and members of the Northern...
Photo of Feb. 16, 2019 shows Chinese tissue culture bananas in Aung May Thit village, Waingmaw township, Kachin State
February 19, 2019
Locals say they are alarmed by the unusual number and variety of dead fish in the Nam Myin Hka creek near a tissue culture banana plantation in...
USDP representatives discuss the constitutional amendments (Photo: MNA)
February 19, 2019
One of Myanmar’s major political parties, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), offered to have an official meeting with the newly-...
February 19, 2019
Introduction: Mon National Day commemorates the founding of the last Mon Kingdom Hongsawatoi, or Pegu, as it is also known. Hongsawatoi was founded...
Youth demonstrators seen in front of NLD Head Office in Loikaw (Photo: KT/Facebook)
February 19, 2019
After several long and harsh days of protest by Karenni youth against the installation of a statue of General Aung San, the demonstrators reached an...
(File) Cadres of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) stand guard at a hideout camp near Amarpur inTinsukia district, some 600 kms from Guwahati, the capital city of India’s northeastern state of Assam on June 27, 2008. Photo: AFP
February 19, 2019
After repeated persuasion by India, the Myanmar government has started a crackdown on Indian militant groups using its territory as safe sanctuary,...
February 18, 2019
A general view of the Myitsone area on a bank of the Irrawaddy river at Irrawaddy Myitsone, near the Myitsone dam project, Myitkyina, Kachin State...
February 18, 2019
The ethnic Chin people are the rightful owners of the land and natural resources in Chin State, the Chin Land Affairs Network (CLAN) declared in a...
February 18, 2019
Ongoing fighting has displaced hundreds in the area. Three civilians were injured in fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan...